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Cespedes Leads the Mets in Admiring His Own Work

But he isn’t the only Met enjoying the team’s recent home-run barrage. Here’s a look at the team’s repeat ‘admirers’

Updated Sept. 17, 2015 10:29 p.m. ET

The baseball world has been amazed at Yoenis Cespedes’s production since joining the Mets. He has hit 17 home runs in 43 games and is perhaps the biggest reason the team holds a comfortable lead in the National League East. Judging by the way Cespedes has admired his home runs, he’s amazed, too.

So as the Mets prepare to host the Yankees for a huge three-game series this weekend, the Journal went back and watched every one of the Mets’ 69 home runs since Cespedes arrived on July 31. We found that his average time...